Word: gaed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defense Department will soon ask Congress to pass a Universal Military Service Bill and to lengthen the period of service for draftees from 21 to 27 months, Chairman Carl M. Vinson (D-Ga.) of the House Armed Services Committee said yesterday...
...outskirts of the project, towns and cities like Aiken, S.C. and Augusta, Ga. set to counting the blessings that would flow when upwards of 25,000 employees went, to work at the giant H-bomb plant. Aiken, which has a population of 7,000 and has been a resort for the wealthy since the 1880s, expected to zoom to a bustling town of 12,000, and already last week, real-estate prices had started to spiral. At Augusta, Ga. (pop. 70,000), the chamber of commerce predicted that the general influx of population and prosperity would be equivalent to moving...
...soldiers were not the only sharp observers. Mrs. Mary A. Ward of Rome, Ga., telling what it was like to be waiting for the Yankees, gets the anxiety across without theatrics. "Hams would be jerked out of the smokehouse, and holes would be dug and everything thrown in pell mell. Then we would begin to imagine that because we knew where those things were, the first Yankee that appeared would know, too, and often we would go and take them all up from there and dig another hole and put them in that; so that our yards began to look...
Everybody in Dawson, Ga. (pop. 4,670) knew that 29-year-old Erle Cocke Jr. had come out of World War II a major with a chestful of medals, that he had been stabbed by a Gestapo agent, shot twice and captured by the Germans three times, and had finally been thrust before a firing squad and left for dead...
Died. Samuel Candler Dobbs, 81, a director, onetime (1919-20) president and longtime (1892-1919) chief booster of the Coca-Cola Co.; in Lakemont, Ga. At 18, Dobbs came out of the Georgia backwoods, got a job as porter in the Atlanta drugstore of his uncle Asa Griggs Candler. When Candler bought the Coca-Cola formula from the druggist who invented it, young Dobbs became its first salesman, boomed it locally as "Delicious & Refreshing" instead of as a headache remedy, later began to make it a national habit by spending millions (over Candler's objections) on advertising...